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Show MANAGER REPORTS . ON BECK TUNNEL'S PROSPECTS f OR ORE In Monday's TELEGRAM waa given the financial report of the Beck Tunnel compeny. and the report of the general manager became available today. In It are contained many Itema of Immediate Interest to stockholders and all who are following affaire at Tlntlc. The manager reports as follows: In June of last year, ehortly after the holding of the stockholders' stock-holders' meeting, the mine was closed snd remained Idle until February of this year, when the driving of a tunna) west-wsrd west-wsrd toward the property of the Uncle Sam Consolidated Mining company was begun. It was known to the manase ment at tnls time that the Uncle Sam company waa operating In ore near the Beck Tunnel boundary, and when the tunnel had been driven about 400 feet from the portal some ore wss encountered. encoun-tered. Connectlone were-soon made with the Uncle Sam workings, a croee-cut pushed southwsrd and a wlnse sunk on the ore discovered. This wlnse haa produced pro-duced all the ore shipped from ths tunnel, tun-nel, but the face of the cross-cut Is now In ore. which gives promise of further shipments from this source. jw - Pi lor as set king -orresss44ewas'ta oe Uncle Sam workings ws wsre permitted to make a survey of the underground workings of thst company near the boundsrlea of the two propertlee. and while some little ore hsd been extracted from the Beck Tunnel territory. It was though best by the manasement and the board of directors to compromise the matter, which waa accordingly done, and a eutt commenced by this company was dismissed. By this compromise certain vertical boundarlss were estebltshed. Since the ore waa encountered the shipments have paid the expense of all development through the tunnel. A little lit-tle prosper-tlng hss been done In the No. 1 worktnge on the 175-foot level, producing some ore which, however, haa not yet been hoisted to the surface for ehlpment. while conditions are now more favorable favor-able than ever before for the development develop-ment of an apparently new ore body, further exploration of thle aectlon of the property le nereesaryMo determine Its significance, and this work Is progressing fsvorably. ' It will doubtlees be of Intereet to the stockholders of thle company to learn thet the shaft being sunk by the Yankee Consolidated Mining company on their property joining the Beck Tunnel territory ter-ritory on the north has reached a depth of 1900 feet, and la being driven rapidly to greater depth. Conditions are reported re-ported to he favorable for the formation of ore bodies at this depth, and any discovery dis-covery of ores would be very encouraging encourag-ing to the Beok Tunnel management. The footage for the year consists of 988 fset. aa followra: Feet. Tunnels 491 Drifts Crosscuts ?v Wlnses l Raises '. |